My Father Chords

Melanie Safka - My Father
 
 
## NOTE: The last verse and Outro are all on the chord G ##
 
 
CAPO: 1st Fret
 
 
INTRO: G  C  G  C  G
 
 
My father always promised us
C                G
We would live in France
 
We'd go sailing on the Seine
    C                D      Em
And I would learn to dance
 
 
             A
We lived in Ohio then
    D                      Dm
And he worked in the mines
                    G
On his dreams, like boats, we knew 
C                Bb   G
We would sail in time___
 
 
 
All my sisters soon were gone
   C              G
To Denver and Cheyenne
 
Marrying their grownup dreams
    C              D    Em
The lilacs and the man
 
 
            A                D
I stayed behind the youngest
                       Dm
And only danced alone
                  G
The colours of my father's dreams
C               Bb      G
Faded without a sound
 
 
 
And now I live in Paris
       C                  G
And my children dance and dream
 
Hearing the story of a miner's life
   C                   D    Em
In words they've never seen
 
 
                A
I sailed my memories of old
     D                       Dm
Like boats across the Seine
                  G
And I watched the Paris sun
C                  Bb    G
Set in my father's eyes again
 
 
 
My father always promised us
 
We would live in France
 
We'd go sailing on the Seine
 
And I would learn to dance
 
 
OUTRO:   (## fade to end ##)
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